Shot over an Obama t-shirt?

[FSETH]

The reason I brought up the Obama/MLK shirt and that I feel a lot of black people in Atlanta are planning on voting for him based on color first is because Atlanta is very different than most other major cities. To put it simply, white southerners are not the only ones who are behind the times as far as race issues go. That definately goes both ways, especially here.

To give a prime example of what I am talking about in this city would be the Michael Vick fiasco. Even though the guy was convicted of participating/funding illegal dog fighting and had a hand in the death of numerous dogs, the vast majority of Atlanta's black residents supported him, protested for him, went on record and TV saying that dogfighting wasn't that bad and they were only animals so what was the big deal. It was on the news everyday for months. To this day, you will still see tons of Vick jerseys at the Falcons games. If Vick were a white QB, they would have most definately not reacted the same way. Vick was so beloved by Atlanta's black residents primarily because he was the first black QB to get drafted #1, but more importantly, he was the first black QB to play for the Falcons. You could see how Atlanta's black residents took pride in him as well and were blinded by everything he was doing off the field because of color, IMO.

Atlanta is a very different place, IMO. On both sides of the coin. That is what I see on a daily basis and where I draw my opinions from.

[Wagner]

Just thought I'd note we are probably all of mixed heritage. I can find some agreement with the fact that blacks seem to inherently vote democrat. IMO that really doesn't make it any better than simply voting on skin tone. If you'd like to see an example of crappy voting based on not understanding facts and simply voting democrat, come to Maryland and check out Martin O'Malley. He ruined the city of Baltimore and is now ruining the state voted in by primarily 3 counties in Maryland.

Obama has simply changed the way you win an election by playing down to the lowest denominator, video games, T-shirts for sale at mall kiosks, etc. It isn't necessarily bad. I mean if you're trying to get someone elected why not take the American Idol approach? Look how successful it is. This will be a defining election in a couple ways including seeing if these amounts of people who are "excited" about Obama actually show up to vote for him. The "youth" vote or "new voter" vote has routinely been a disappointment, but maybe that will be different this year.